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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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- Iowa Town Turned into “Open-Air Prison” as Wives of Men Arrested in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Forbidden to Work…or Leave
- The Limits of Power: Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- Headlines
- Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison
- “The Bishop of the Poor”: Paraguay’s New President Fernando Lugo Ends 62 Years of Conservative Rule
Monday, August 18, 2008
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Cheney, Bush and Habbush”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.
Filed under Weekly Column
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“Don’t Cage Dissent”
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
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Lawmaker Calls on Pentagon to Explain Promotion of Threat-Wielding Recruiter After Democracy Now! Broadcast
Rep. Gene Green (D–TX) is calling on the Pentagon to explain why a military recruiter was given a promotion despite being found to have illegally threatened a teenage boy with jail time if he decided to go to college instead of joining the military. The recruiter was eventually promoted to head a different recruiting station. Green sent the letter questioning Kelt’s new job after his Wednesday appearance on Democracy Now!
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“Threats, Lies and Audiotape”
With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.
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‘It’s a Global Election’
Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”
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“Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”
The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.
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“Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”
While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.
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“Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime”
It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free, but the celebration of her release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.
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September 2003 Archive
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
- Headlines for September 30, 2003
- White House Rejects Demands by Congress Members for an Independent Probe of White House Leak That Blew CIA Operative’s Cover
- Foreign Students Need Not Apply: A Look At the New Target of U.S. Govt’s Hunt For “Potential Terrorists”
- Military Families And Soldiers Speak Out Against War
Monday, September 29, 2003
- Headlines for September 29, 2003
- Congress Members Call For Independent Probe of White House Leak That Blew CIA Operative’s Cover After CIA Refers Investigation To Justice Dept.
- Halabja: How Bush Sr. Continued to Support Saddam After the 1988 Gassing of Thousands And Bush Jr. Used it As a Pretext For War 15 Years Later
Friday, September 26, 2003
Thursday, September 25, 2003
- Headlines for September 25, 2003
- His Holiness The Dalai Lama Speaks Out On U.S. Foreign Policy, Against the Invasion of Iraq and 9/11
- Arnold Attends First Gubernatorial Debate & It Breaks Into Free-for-All
- New Investigation Says U.S. Helicopter Gunship Killed ITN Reporter Terry Lloyd
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
- Headlines for September 24, 2003
- Scholar Norman Finkelstein Calls Professor Alan Dershowitz’s New Book On Israel a “Hoax”
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
- Headlines for September 23, 2003
- Democracy Now! Hosts a Debate On the Roots of 9/11 and the Failures of Three Successive Presidential Administrations to Stop Bin Laden
Monday, September 22, 2003
- Headlines for September 22, 2003
- “The Position of the Bush Administration is Truly Criminal” – Environmental Reporter Ross Gelbspan on George Bush, Oil and Coal
- Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy
Friday, September 19, 2003
- Headlines for September 19, 2003
- “Global Warming” –Two Words You Never Hear in Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Hurricane Isabel
- NYPD Settles “Stop & Frisk” Lawsuit
- Did JetBlue Airways Give the Pentagon Data on 5 Million Passengers?
- Ex-CIA Analysts: “The Real Question is How Post-9/11 Was Exploited…To Curtail Our Freedoms and Launch an Unprovoked War”
Thursday, September 18, 2003
- Headlines for September 18, 2003
- General Wesley Clark: The Anti War Warrior?
- Robert Fisk on Wesley Clark & Iraq: “What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People”
- Ashcroft Declassifies Number of Records Sought Under Patriot Act After Calling Critics “Hysterical”
- Gov’t Sets Up Massive Watchlist of “Known and Suspected Terrorists”
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
- Headlines for September 17, 2003
- Where is the Government Investigation Into Who in the White House Outted Joseph Wilson’s Wife as an Alleged CIA Operative?
- “The Crazies Are Back”: Bush Sr.’s CIA Briefer Discusses How Wolfowitz & Allies Falsely Led the U.S. To War
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
- Headlines for September 16, 2003
- Cheney Justifies Invasion Of Iraq In First Televised Interview in Six Months
- Cheney Claims Again Iraq Tried To Acquire Uranium From Niger
- Cheney Claims No Knowledge That White House Helped Evacuate 24 Members of the Bin Laden Family Days After 9/11
- Cheney Suggests Iraq Is Linked To ’93 WTC Bombing Through Wanted Iraqi-American
- Cheney Reasserts Already Debunked Atta–Iraq Connection
Monday, September 15, 2003
- Headlines for September 15, 2003
- WTO Talks Collapse Amid Rift Between Rich and Poor Nations
- Second Black Bodybuilder Claims Schwarzenegger Repeatedly Made Racist Comments to Him
- Israel Threatens to Kill Yasser Arafat ; Ex-PM Peres Blames Sharon For Destroying the Peace Process
Friday, September 12, 2003
- Headlines for September 12, 2003
- Third Day of WTO Protests Continue in Cancun
- Over 140 Protesters Arrested in London at Europe’s Biggest Arms Show
- Thousands of Palestinians Rally in Support of Arafat After Israel Authorizes His “Removal”
- How Do Prisons Profit From Immigrant Detainees?
- Farouk Abdel Muhti Spends His 500th Day in Prison & Faces Deportation
- Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth
Thursday, September 11, 2003
- Headlines for September 11, 2003
- DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL:
9/11 TWO YEARS LATER (pt. 2 of 3) - Sept. 11, 2001: Pakistani Family Mourns Loss of Son Who Went From Terror Suspect to 9/11 Hero
- Sept. 11, 1973: A CIA-backed Military Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende, the Democratically Elected President of Chile
- Sept. 11-12, 1977: Anti-Apartheid leader Stephen Biko Dies From Brain Damage After Beating By South African Police
- Sept. 11, 1990: U.S.-Backed Military Death Squad Murders Guatemalan Anthropologist Myrna Mack
- Sept. 9-13, 1971: New York State Troopers Kill 39 Men in Raid To End Attica Prison Uprising
- South Korean Farmer Dies After Stabbing Himself in WTO Protest in Cancun
- Protesters Disrupt Rumsfeld Speech & Tell Him: “You’re Fired! Your Foreign Policy Is Based on Lies”
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
- Headlines for September 10, 2003
- DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL:
9/11 TWO YEARS LATER (pt. 1 of 3)
Victims’ Families Call For Peaceful Tomorrows
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
- Headlines for September 09, 2003
- Protest Planned Against Ashcroft’s NYC Visit as Part of Nationwide Tour to Defend Patriot Act
- Jailed African American Webmaster Sherman Austin Moved Into Isolation After Receiving White Supremacist Death Threats
- Conscientious Objector Sentenced to Six Months in Jail
- “Guarding the Oil Underworld in Iraq” – U.S. Hires Private Security Firm in Iraq; WTO Protesters Head to Cancun
- Supreme Court Appears Split On Overturning New Campaign Finance Law
Monday, September 08, 2003
- Headlines for September 08, 2003
- Bush in Crisis: Slipping in the Polls, GW Looks to Congress for Money and UN for Troops
- Israeli PM Sharon Makes Unprecedented Visit to India; Will India and Pakistan Send Troops to Iraq?
- Arafat Names New Palestinian PM as Abu Mazen Resigns
Friday, September 05, 2003
- Headlines for September 05, 2003
- “The Only Spanish [Bush] Speaks When it Comes to Jobs is Hasta La Vista”–Democratic Candidates Slam GW in First Ever Bilingual Presidential Debate
- Ex-World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz & Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach Preview Next Week’s WTO Meetings in Cancun
- Up To 8 Million Americans Could Lose Overtime Pay Under New GOP Plan
Thursday, September 04, 2003
- Headlines for September 04, 2003
- In Surprise Decision, Federal Judges Block FCC Media Ownership Rules
- With Occupation Costs Soaring, U.S. Set to Go Back To U.N. Asking For Unprecedented Resolution
- Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver GW Another Election?
- A Tortured Path to Justice
- Under Pressure from Corporations, Ashcroft Threatens to Overturn a 200 Year-Old Law Used to Fight Human Rights Abusers and War Criminals
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
- Headlines for September 03, 2003
- Federal Court Overturns Over 100 Death Sentences in 3 States
- Court Reconsidering Case of 12 Year-Old Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
- First Person in U.S. History to be Executed for Killing an Abortion Provider Scheduled to Die Today
- The U.S. Government Wanted ‘To Make An Example Out of Me’: Young Webmaster Heads to Prison for Political Website
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
- Headlines for September 02, 2003
- Hundreds of Thousands Mourn Assassinated Shiite Leader; Bomb Explodes Outside Baghdad Police Office
- Inquiry into David Kelly’s Death Takes Emotional Turn as Powerful UK Communications Director Alastair Campbell Resigns
- The Nation’s First Homeless Veteran of the Invasion of Iraq Speaks Out
Monday, September 01, 2003
- Headlines for September 01, 2003
- Labor Day Special Pt. 1: People’s Historian Howard Zinn on Occupied Iraq, the Role of Resistance Movements, Government Lies and the Media.
- Labor Day Special Pt. II: Mother Jones’ March of the Mill Children 100 Years Later
